Today’s search engine marketing news and opinion: Obama’s Link Strategy Fuels Election Victory; The Account Quality Score: Money Pit for the Uninformed; Yang Says Microsoft Deal is Best Bet for Yahoo; and more. Continue to read more…
As I downloaded yet more of Metallica yesterday from iTunes (the new stuff freaking rocks btw) it got me thinking of how some bands are embracing social communities and growing bigger because of them. Also, bands like Metallica are finally starting to figure out the power of the Internet, and embrace its users more […]
If I had the time I’d prepare a professionally produced training video on search engine optimizing your WordPress blog/site, but I don’t, so instead I’ll just direct you to the video that John Pozadzides recorded of my 30 minute long presentation at WordCamp San Francisco from several months ago here, or simply watch the embedded […]
A few weeks ago during SMX East, one of the subjects that came up was pagerank sculpting and use of nofollow. Most of the panelists didn’t use the practice, and Googler Matt Cutts has said it’s ok but not something he would put a high priority on if you set up your site correctly. Xoogler […]
For Halloween this year, I decided to be Rick Astley. With a little bit of hair spray, spray-on hair color, and some make-up for a widow’s peak, it looks like this: What fun. To make the costume complete, I took my Android G1 phone and bought a […]
The local search market is a hard nut to crack. It seems you need to go door to door to extract information. That’s what Google are doing. Well, they’re paying people to do so. They’ve launched a program called Google Local Business Referrals. “(Google) paying independent contractors, called business referral representatives, to […]
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This week it seems like I have had so many conversations with people about the simple things they can do to their website to make it social media optimized, and because of that I wanted to take that approach with today’s viral media post. Has anyone (other Internet marketers) else noticed how good […]
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As a lot of people have heard the ex-Googlers at Cuil have launch their “Efficient Google Killer”, which seems to have become the laughing stock of the SEO Community for terrible results and matching up images with search results that don’t belong to the same website. Today out of curiosity I thought I would […]